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  • From: Revdpickrel AT wmconnect.com
  • To: yitzhaksapir AT gmail.com, b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Tehom: Divine or Not Divine?
  • Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 21:24:14 EDT

In a message dated 7/13/2006 4:36:31 PM Central Daylight Time,
yitzhaksapir AT gmail.com writes:


> > I am easily confused, and you guys have confused the daylights out of me.
> > Are you talking about "Rahab" and "Leviathan." I'm surprised if you are;
> > Rahab is the ancient name for Egypt, and "Leviathan" is the antiquity name
> > for Satan, the twisted serpent that God cut his heads off and placed them
> in
> > the deep. By the way, "Leviathan" means, "the one who live among the sea
> of
> > humanity."
>
> How do you know this? (A question that I, and probably Karl as well, should
> also probably answer).
>
> Yitzhak Sapir

I know this from comparing OT Scriptures: Rahab/Egypt, Isa. 30:6-7;
Leviathan, the twisted serpent, Isa. 27:1 and Ps. 74:14. There are about a
dozen
passages in the OT that talks about Leviathan and his fate. The late Louis
Gensberg, former President of the NY Jewish Theological Seminary, and author
of
LEGENDS OF THE BIBLE gives the meaning of Leviathan to be "one who dwells in
the
sea of humanity."
You know that often 'sea' in Scriptures is actually meaning nation of peoples.

Doug.
Rev. Doug Pickrel, Litt.D.
Tejas Valley
San Antonio, Texas




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